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Delete several files in a batch

Source: R/RcppExports.R
vsi_unlink_batch.Rd

vsi_unlink_batch() deletes a list of files passed in a character vector. All files should belong to the same file system handler. This is implemented efficiently for /vsis3/ and /vsigs/ (provided for /vsigs/ that OAuth2 authentication is used). This function is a wrapper for VSIUnlinkBatch() in the GDAL Common Portability Library.

Usage

vsi_unlink_batch(filenames)

Arguments

filenames

Character vector. The list of files to delete.

Value

Invisibly, a logical vector of length(filenames) with values depending on the success of deletion of the corresponding file. NULL might be returned in case of a more general error (for example, files belonging to different file system handlers).

See also

deleteDataset(), vsi_rmdir(), vsi_unlink()

Examples

# for illustration only
# this would normally be used with GDAL virtual file systems
elev_file <- system.file("extdata/storml_elev.tif", package="gdalraster")
tcc_file <- system.file("extdata/storml_tcc.tif", package="gdalraster")

tmp_elev <- paste0(tempdir(), "/", "tmp_elev.tif")
file.copy(elev_file,  tmp_elev)
#> [1] TRUE
tmp_tcc <- paste0(tempdir(), "/", "tmp_tcc.tif")
file.copy(tcc_file,  tmp_tcc)
#> [1] TRUE
result <- vsi_unlink_batch(c(tmp_elev, tmp_tcc))
print(result)
#> [1] TRUE TRUE